Alshabab claims responsibility of a heavy explosion at parliament compound

Somalicurrent – gun fire between AMISOM forces in Somali parliament compound and Al-qaeda linked group continues after a heavy explosion rocked inside the parliament compound, at least 4 people have been killed, according to reports from Mogadishu eye witnesses.

Alshabab claimed the responsibility for the bomb attack where a car full of explosives materials has entered the compound.

“Federal Parliamentarians inside the building have been evacuated from the compound, Two heavy explosions were heard inside the Somali parliament compound,” eye witnesses in Mogadishu told Somalicurrent.

Al-shabab, despite being pushed out from most of its key towns in South and Central Somalia, but still active and takes intermittent and callous attacks on Somali government officials in mostly Capital city, Mogadishu.